Jules Delafosse

Jules Delafosse (2 March 1841-31 January 1916) was a French Bonapartist deputy from 1877 to 1898 and from 1902 to 1916.

Biography
Jules Delafosse was born in Pont-Farcy, Calvados, France in 1841. He served in the National Guard during the Franco-Prussian War, participating in the defense of Paris, and he was elected to the Chamber of Deputies as the Bonapartist deputy for Vire in 1877. In May 1883, when the National Assembly voted 4 million francs to consolidate the French protectorate in Cochinchina, Delafosse declared that the French government did not want a protectorate, but a possession. He criticized the Tonkin War and the government's lack of response to the British invasion of Egypt, and he later supported Georges Boulanger's plot to overthrow the government and establish a conservative dictatorship. He served as a deputy until his death in 1916.